This link will take you to Nancy's PowerPoint presentation. Please be aware that the presentation was not designed as a stand-along product - there was a great deal of information provided along with each slide.
Rick's notes from Nancy's presentation (contains links to many resources she cites)
Citation and Note Taking: Using Noodle Tools in the Middle School Grades, Lucy Clerkin December 2009
At the start of the 2009 school year, one of my goals was to have every 8th-grade student set up with a Noodle Tools account and using it to create bibliographies for research projects. Since I started promoting Noodle Tools, an interest in using Noodle Tools has spread to other grades and I am now doing the same with 6th and 7th grade students!
Noodle Tools is fairly easy to use once you get the hang of it. Before teaching it to students, create your own account and explore what Noodle Tools has to offer. Definitely start small in the beginning. It may take about 40 minutes to get a class of about 25 students set up with an account.
My Process
I am very lucky to have a laptop cart in the library with 16 wireless laptops. While this made a huge difference in how I conducted my first 6th-grade class in the library, it was not critical to the success of the lesson. Here is what I did for 4 classes of 24 6th-grade students:
Made 3 sets of cards with the #s 1-12.
12 laptops were set up around tables. One set of cards was used to label each laptop.
The remaining 2 sets of cards were handed to students as they entered the library.
Students were instructed to locate the laptop with the # that matched the # they were given and to sit with their partner. I organized how I handed out the #s so I knew approximately the order in which students would find their laptop. This avoided too much gridlock looking for the right laptop.
On the Smartboard, I had our goals for the day...Today We Will:
Talk about why we use a bibliography when we do research
Talk about Noodle Tools
Create a Noodle Tools Account
I asked students about bibliographies, why we use them, why they are important, etc.
We talked about Noodle Tools, yes, it's a funny word, but what is it?
We got started on setting up an account and I walked the students through the steps of:
where to find Noodle Tools on the Waltham Public Schools Web Page
registering
creating a personal i.d.
Students opened Word and:
created a document with their username and password
created a folder with the title Noodle Tools
saved the document into the Noodle Tools folder
Students logged off the laptop and turned it over to their partner.
The student who just created their Noodle Tools account now taught their partner how to create a Noodle Tools account and how to create a word document and folder.
Student Assessment
Could students:
create a Noodle Tools account
create a folder and name it Noodle Tools
create a word document with their Noodle Tools username and password and save it to the Noodle Tools folder
Will Students:
remember how to access Noodle Tools
remember how to find their Noodle Tools folder if they forget their username and password
actually use Noodle Tools!
Self Assessment
Could students set up an account based on my instruction?
Were my instructions clear and complete?
How will I know if students are using Noodle Tools? Does this require follow up in the classroom and during research in the library and technology labs?
Resources
You may want to hand out this NoodleTools Bookmark Guide. I didn't use it for my first class, but I plan to use it when I see students again as a reminder of how to access and use Noodle Tools.
Nancy Anthony's presentation, January 8, 2010
Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement in the Second Decade
This link will take you to Nancy's PowerPoint presentation. Please be aware that the presentation was not designed as a stand-along product - there was a great deal of information provided along with each slide.Rick's notes from Nancy's presentation (contains links to many resources she cites)
Citation and Note Taking: Using Noodle Tools in the Middle School Grades, Lucy Clerkin December 2009
At the start of the 2009 school year, one of my goals was to have every 8th-grade student set up with a Noodle Tools account and using it to create bibliographies for research projects. Since I started promoting Noodle Tools, an interest in using Noodle Tools has spread to other grades and I am now doing the same with 6th and 7th grade students!
Noodle Tools is fairly easy to use once you get the hang of it. Before teaching it to students, create your own account and explore what Noodle Tools has to offer. Definitely start small in the beginning. It may take about 40 minutes to get a class of about 25 students set up with an account.
My Process
I am very lucky to have a laptop cart in the library with 16 wireless laptops. While this made a huge difference in how I conducted my first 6th-grade class in the library, it was not critical to the success of the lesson. Here is what I did for 4 classes of 24 6th-grade students:
Student Assessment
Could students:
Will Students:
Self Assessment
- Could students set up an account based on my instruction?
- Were my instructions clear and complete?
- How will I know if students are using Noodle Tools? Does this require follow up in the classroom and during research in the library and technology labs?
ResourcesYou may want to hand out this NoodleTools Bookmark Guide. I didn't use it for my first class, but I plan to use it when I see students again as a reminder of how to access and use Noodle Tools.
NoodleTools: A Bookmark Guide for New Users
This detailed user guide may help you, if you're the kind of learner who likes to read manuals...:)
NoodleTools User Guide
Comments
What could I have done differently? How would you have taught this class?